Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:04:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <20010719180450.I24616@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01070820475301.12819@dave>; from duhring@charter.net on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:47:53PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107090901340.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <3B48E1B0.4000302@charter.net> <009901c1080e$9baa05e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <01070820475301.12819@dave>
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On Sunday, 8 July 2001 at 20:47:53 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: > On Sunday 08 July 2001 19:32, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > >> >> This "virus-like" aspect of the GPL is also very loudly explained in >> a 12-page presentation distributed internally to all developers at >> IBM. (The virus-like aspect is a big deal. If someone accidentally >> *statically* linked a piece of GPL'd object code, such as GNU >> getopt(), into a major product such as DB2 EEE for Linux, then they >> would be forced to open the code to DB2. That would not be a very >> profitable move for IBM.) >> >> The problem for me (as a developer who would love to port XFS to >> FreeBSD, but by being employed by IBM, cannot), is that IBM would >> have IP rights over any changes that I would have to submit back to >> SGI in order to make XFS work on FreeBSD. For IBM to release that >> code under the GPL, SGI would have to work with IBM and come to an >> agreement (which would involve all of the IP laywers from the two >> firms battling it out). Since this process would take months and a >> pile of cash, FreeBSD would never see XFS. >> >> Sad, but true. Maybe I need to switch companies :) > > No need to switch companies over something like this. Fix up JFS for > FreeBSD :-) and stay with IBM. As I've said on the correct group (FreeBSD-fs), if anybody wants to port JFS to FreeBSD, please contact me. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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